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A54322	A collection of some brave actions and memorable sayings of King Henry the Great. Writ in French by the Bishop of Rodez, as a supplement to the history of that King, formerly publish'd by the same author. Done into English. Licensed, June 6. 1688	Péréfixe de Beaumont, Hardouin de, b. 1605.	1688 (1688)	Wing P1465AA; ESTC R218232	15,617	73

A COLLECTION OF SOME Brave ACTIONS AND Memorable SAYINGS OF King Henry the Great Writ in French by the Bishop of Rodez as a Supplement to the History of that King formerly publish'd by the same Author Done into English Licensed June 6. 1688. LONDON Printed for Abel Roper at the Bell over against the Middle Temple-Gate near Temple-Bar 1688. Advertisement THE Glorious Name of Henry the Great is sufficient to recommend to the the Public any thing concerning him Nor is it the least of those Glories which Crown his Memory that not only the most Christian King now reigning in France is his Grandson but also our own most Gracious Sovereign King James II. whose true and lively Character we may read in what is here said of his Grandfather King Henry IV. This Collection of that famous Prince's Words and Actions I find Printed at the end of the French Edition of his Life and writ by the same Author Hardovin de Perefixe Bishop of Rodez tho it seems it has not been hitherto rendred into our Language Certainly the Remarks here collected are worthy the Applause of all Nations and the Imitation of the greatest and bravest of Men. As he was not inferiour except only in time to the best of those Heroes of Antiquity whose Actions and Sayings Plutarch hath with great Industry collected so are these Particulars of his Life no less worthy of Observation But I will detain the Reader no longer from perusing the Author premising only that the Bishop of Rodez was formerly Preceptor to his Present Majesty of France King Lewis XIV and the occasion of his making these Collections he hath sufficiently set forth in his Epistle Dedicatory to that King as follows TO THE KING SIRE WHEN I observed your Majesties Care and Delight in reading the Summary of the Life of Henry the Great to have given your Majesty some Satisfaction and caused so great Joy in all France who saw her King follow such glorious Examples I thought my self obliged to add thereunto this little Collection which I have made of the bravest Actions and the most memorable Sayings of that August Monarch That so the Picture which I have already presented to your Majesty may appear more finisht and perfect In effect Sire these particulars do represent the Interior of his Soul and express his Genius and his Inclinations more lively than all that has been said in the most glorious part of his History and discovering to us the bottom of his Heart and Spirit they at the same time make us see that this generous Prince was such within as he appeared without and that he was not at all like those who have nothing good but the Exterior and who disguise dangerous Vices under beautiful Appearances But Sire it must necessarily be acknowledged that you have made a much better Picture of him in your Person and Conduct beyond the performance of all the Pencils and Pens of the World. Further let me add that in regard your Majesty is not displeased that I have the Honour to be near your Person and that thereby I have the Joy to see such great and glorious Actions at so little distance I find my self engaged to commit them to writing that so I may one day attest them to all Europe and to Posterity I believe that when the Public shall see the History which I design to give them they will confess that the Parallel of your Majesty with Henry the Great will be most just and that even the Glory of the Grandfather will receive new Splendor from that of his Grandson I shall be at no trouble to invent any Artifice or false Ornaments to embelish the Work I shall not need to employ therein any thing but Candour and the simple Truth and if I have any Reproach to fear it will be that I have said less than Renown it self has publisht In effect Sire seeing that so noble Ayr and that profound Wisdom with which your Majesty proceeds I dare boldly and without Flattery fore-tell that your Heroic Vertues will in a little time surpass those of Augustus of Charlemagne and of Henry the Great and I hope also that the Favours of Heaven continuing I shall see your Glory and your Posterity to equal the Desires which I daily make with that Zeal which ought to appear in SIRE Of your Majesty The most humble most obedient most faithful and most obliged Servant and Subject Hardovin B. of Rodez A COLLECTION OF CERTAIN Brave ACTIONS AND Memorable SAYINGS OF King Henry the Great IT would be a Task mighty painful and without end to him who aims to express every thing that 's Brave in the Life of Henry the Great More than Fifty Historians and above Five Hun● Panegyrists Poets and Orators have endeavour'd it and yet have not exprest half what the Subject affords Amidst so great variety we collect here some Flowers not the most beautiful perhaps but however such as please best and we will put them together without Art and Order the Confusion of pleasing Objects having its proper Beauty as well as the best Method Some have observ'd that this Great King excell'd the Emperor Augustus in Goodness and Mercy and that like him after a long Intestine War he closed up the Wounds of the State allay'd the Tempest that disturb'd it and restor'd the Force of the Laws the Authority of the Magistrate and the Discipline of his Soldiers Many also have compared the begining of his Reign to that of David for the great Revolutions that exercis'd his Courage The Middle to that of Solomon for the Order and Beauty of his Government and for the Plenty and Riches which he procured to his Kingdom And his mournful End to that of Josias Three of the best and most religious Kings that ever Govern'd God's People Others have put him in parallel with Cyrus the Founder of the Persian Empire with Alexander the Great with the Emperors Constantine I. Charlemagne Otho and Henry IV. Certain it is there is not one of these Princes to whom he may not be equall'd and perhaps in some particulars he much excells It is a curious Observation that never any Prince arriv'd to the Succession of a Crown at so great a distance from it nor ever saw so many Princes of the Blood die before him But it is a more important Remarque that never King of France united so many fair Possessions into his Dominion as he He only brought more Additions to the Crown than Philip de Valois Lewis XII and Francis I. who all like him were of the collateral Line He annext that part which was left him of the Kingdom of Navarre the Soveraignty of Bearn the Dutchies of Alanson Vendosme Albert Beaumont Vicomte I know not how many rich Counties Foix Armagnac Bigorre Rovergue Peigord la Fere Marle Soissons Limoges Conversan and so many other Lands that to name them would be troublesom It is easie to say what was the most prevailing Passion of this

Invention highly prejudicial both to King and People Another time being in an Inn at Milly in Gastinois and having put certain people there into a Discourse of his Life there was one who said a thousand good things of him but concluded thus He loves Women too much God punishes Adulterers it is to be feared that in the end he will not let it pass having endured so long These Words sunk so deep in his Heart that he confess'd never any Preacher toucht him so sensibly Another time being extream hungry in hunting he came to an Inn on the High-way and set himself down at Table with a Company of Tradesmen where having dined they began to talk of him they knew him not for his Apparel was always plain A certain Fellow that dealt in Hogs cry'd Never speak of that the Cask will always smell of the Herring A while after the King standing at the Window saw several Lords who rode about to find him these seeing the King came up presently to the Chamber The Hog-Merchant hearing them call him Sire and your Majesty without doubt was sufficiently astonisht and wisht heartily that he had never spoke those foolish Words But the King stepping from the place where he stood stroke him gently on the Arm saying Honest Man the Cask will always smell of the Herring but this ought to be applyed to you and not to me I am I praise God a good Catholick but you keep still the old Leaven of the League In what Terms ought we to speak of his good Humour and Clemency to express them worthily One may say that he was all Heart and that he had no Gall. Of so many Conspirators that did their endeavour to embroyl the Kingdom 't is observed that he never Executed any but the Mareschal de Biron to whom before he delivered him over to Justice he offer'd his pardon three several times in case he would but acknowledge his Offence In all his Wars when he saw his Enemies give Ground and just put to the Rout did he not use to ride up to the Head of his Bataillions crying Save the French Quarter to the French. In time of Peace he always preserved his Hands clean from the Bloud of his Subjects although in his Wars he never return'd from a Fight with his Sword unstain'd in the Bloud of his Enemies Like a good Shepherd who endeavours to Cure those of his Flock that are infected rather than cut their Throats He used all patience obliging Actions and Address to recover those whom the Faction had infected He dissembled the knowledg of their ill Will and in spite of their Endeavours he hindred them from doing Evil and converted them to good A wise King said he is like an able Apothecary who of the worst of Poysons composes excellent Antidotes and of Vipers makes Treacle Above all these excellent Qualities we ought to place the unspeakable Love and Tenderness which he had for his People He affected nothing more passionately than to pleasure them and to make them live at peace and ease To this purpose was his most ordinary Discourse We may see an infinite number of his Letters to the Governours of Provinces to his Sur-intendants and to his Parliaments containing these Expressions Take Care of my People they are my Children God has given them to my Care and I am responsible and such like Words full of Ardour and a most cordial and paternal Goodness When the Duke of Savoy came to Paris the King took him one day to see 'em play at Tennis in the Fauxbourg St. Germain after the Sport was over as they were standing together at the Window that open'd to the Street the Duke seeing a mighty Concourse of people told him He could never sufficiently admire the Beauty and Opulence of France and askt his Majesty what the Revenue might be worth to him This Prince generous and ready in his Repartees answered It is worth what I please The Duke finding this Answer evasive prest him to tell him precisely what France yielded him The King replyed Yes indeed what I please for having the Heart of my People I have all that I desire And if God gives me but Life I will cause that there shall not be a Labourer in my Kingdom but he shall be able if he pleases to have a Hen in his Pot every day Adding And if they have not so at present it is because I am forced to maintain so many Soldiers to reduce all those to reason who would choak my Authority The Duke replyed not a word more but remain'd satisfy'd with the Answer Certain Troops that he sent into Germany having committed some Disorders in Champagne and plundered some of the Peasant's Houses he told the Captains that remain'd behind in Paris Depart in speed and take Orders about this business or you shall answer for it What! if they ruine my People that nourish me who shall maintain the Charges of the Government and who shall pay your Pensions Gentlemen Living God! He that takes from my People takes from me The Inhabitants of the Vally which runs along the River Loire having been great Sufferers by the overflowing of that River besought to be eased of the Taxes and to that purpose writ to the Duke of Sully Sur-intendant of the Finances who presently made their Request known to the King by Letter who answer'd in these pathetical Expressions As to that about the great Flouds God has given me my Subjects to preserve them as my Children Let my Council treat them with Charity Alms are most pleasing to God especially upon this occasion I have a Tender Conscience let them then have all the Assistance that you think I can afford them After this can we wonder if this Prince was adored by all the World The best Mark of the Goodness of a Sovereign Prince and the streight Band which ought to be always between him and his Subjects is the Care which he hath to communicate to them his own Joys and the part which they take in those Joys not only by outward appearances which are extreamly deceitful and which they afford as well to bad as good Princes but also by the inward motions and by the Sentiments of the Heart From the first entry that this true Father of the French made into Paris and when his Goodness began to be known there all the Inhabitants of that little Word were always concern'd for whatever happen'd to him and were as much affected with it as if it had happened to themselves They rejoyced at his Contentments and sorrowed at his Displeasure Both the times he was sick it seemed as if the people of that Great City had been in a Fever On the contrary he was no sooner well again but his Health became theirs and they believed that the Health of the Kingdom and that of their Prince was the same thing In like manner when God had sent him any cause of Joy he desir'd that they might partake